Donald McCaig Quotes
I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
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Tara: Sweetie, you wouldn't blow off a class if your head was on fire.
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I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
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Accident, he wondered, or a way of hiding? Trapped or planned? He had no way of knowing and further speculation was ridiculous, based as it necessarily must be upon earlier assumptions that were entirely without support.
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Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
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Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.
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I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
